Do teachers know how their teaching is perceived by their pupils?

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Authors

  • Giang Pham
  • Tobias Koch
  • Andreas Helmke
  • Friedrich-Wilhelm Schrader
  • Tuyet Helmke
  • Michael Eid
Research findings have revealed that teachers’ perceptions of their own instructional quality are often inappropriate. Our research dealt with two research questions. First, how closely are teachers’ ratings of instruction associated with their students’ ratings? Second, do teachers share a stronger consensus with their students than visiting colleagues do? Data were collected by means of questionnaires and analyzed using the correlated-trait - correlated-method minus one (CTC(M-1)) model (Eid, 2000). Our results show low consistency between teacher and student ratings, which is not higher than between students and colleagues. Consequences for research and practice are discussed.
Original languageEnglish
JournalProcedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
Volume46
Pages (from-to)3368-3374
Number of pages7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01.01.2012
Externally publishedYes

    Research areas

  • Sociology - classroom instruction, perception of instruction, consistency between perspectives, CTC(M-1)

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